ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses narrative approaches to gender and security to show how challenging dominant modes of thinking security needs to entail attention to gender and other intersectional markers of identity that are intimately involved in shaping that which is to be secured in the first place. It considers how narrative as a mode or form of writing can reshape understandings of security. Gendered security narratives enable different ways of thinking about the world and the politics of security, violence, and peace. A feminist narrative approach to Security Studies not only brings stories to the core of scholarship but also questions the mechanisms and reasons for their silencing. Feminist narrative approaches that draw on grassroots, activist, discursive, and ethnographic knowledge’s and are grounded in the intersectionality of gender, caste, and class offer an even more nuanced understanding of the Maoist movement and the experiences and politics of its members.
